[ExI] Royal Pardon for Alan Turing

[Eugenio Martínez]

I think that the important question is: Do Alan Turing pardon the Queen?


On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:51 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Will Steinberg wrote:
> > The fact that they denied the same pardon but a year ago makes it seem
> like
> > an empty gesture.  This is the government that drove one of the greatest
> > geniuses of our time to suicide by STERILIZING him...
> >
> >
>
> Earlier governments did much worse than that.
> Heretics and witches were tortured and burnt at the stake. Capital
> punishment was common. Slavery was normal.
> The Royal Pardoner will be very busy if all earlier wrongs are to be
> righted (by our current standards).
>
> This is likely to be a permanent job as future generations will
> probably want to pardon a lot of the things we do nowadays.
>
>
> BillK
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